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How to use the word incapacitated in a Sentence?

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None of the 14 shots were necessary, but if you were going to shoot, the first shot incapacitated the man, there were 13 shots to follow, which is why he is no longer with us.

Shaka Johnson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If one of our limbs were taken out or if our stomach was slashed open, we would probably be incapacitated, but infected cicadas, despite the fact that a third of their body has fallen off, continue to go about their activities like mating and flying as if nothing happened. This is really, really unique for insect killing fungi.

Matthew Kasson.Read

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Mr Johnson MOVED TO HOSPITALS INTENSIVE-CARE UNIT AFTER CORONAVIRUS SYMPTOMS WORSEN, SPOKESMAN SAYS Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks during a Coronavirus press conference, in Downing Street, London, Friday March 20, 2020. Mr Johnson remains in intensive care where Mr Johnson has been given oxygen due to the coronavirus, but Mr Johnson is not on a ventilator, senior cabinet minister Michael Gove said on Tuesday, according to the BBC. ( Julian Simmonds/Pool Photo via AP) CORONAVIRUS : WHO IS Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab ? Gove himself later announced he would be going into self-isolation after a family member showed symptoms. The government previously said the decision was a precaution and that the prime minister had been in good spirits earlier in the day.Johnson askedForeign SecretaryDominic Raabto deputize for him, the spokesman said. Over the course of this afternoon, the condition of the prime minister has worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the intensive care unit at St Thomas Hospital on Sunday, the spokesman previously said. The PM is receiving excellent care, and thanks all [ National Health Service ] staff for their hard work and dedication. Mr Johnson quarantined in Mr Johnson home since being diagnosed with COVID-19 on March 26. TRUMP SADDENED OVER BORIS JOHNSONS CORONAVIRUS CONDITION, OFFERS HELP OF BRILLIANT COMPANIES The U.K. has no official post of deputy prime minister, but Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has been designated to take over should Mr Johnson become incapacitated. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told a news conference that the prime minister was still running the government, although he added that hehadnt spoken to the prime minister directly since Saturday, according to Reuters. Meanwhile, President Trump gave President Trump best wishes to the prime minister during a White House coronavirus briefing on Monday. CLICK HERE FOR MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE We are very saddened to hear that President Trump was taken into intensive care this afternoon.Americans are all praying for President Trump recovery. President Trump has been President Trump. Hes been really something very special.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

When you use a tool like this on an incapacitated person, to me it certainly amounts to cruel and degrading treatment.

Nils Melzer

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

If there had been a trial and Sumner Redstone was declared mentally incompetent, that could have at least forced change at the top of Viacom Inc -LRB- VIAB.O -RRB-, with a settlement, it's conceivable that Shari Redstone and Dauman could continue with the status quo even if Sumner Redstone is incapacitated, and shareholders will never know.

Eric Jackson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If there had been a trial and Sumner Redstone was declared mentally incompetent, that could have at least forced change at the top of Viacom Inc -LRB- VIAB.O -RRB-, with a settlement, its conceivable that Shari Redstone and Dauman could continue with the status quo even if Sumner Redstone is incapacitated and shareholders will never know.

Eric Jackson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We've got to be able to distinguish between dangerous individuals who need to be incapacitated and incarcerated versus young people who... if given different opportunities, a different vision of life, could be thriving, that's what strikes me -- there but for the grace of God. And that I think is something that we all have to think about.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

( Todashev) went down, but Ibragim Todashev was not incapacitated. Ibragim Todashev came up again in an aggressive manner, and the officer then fired the second volley of three or four shots. Which at that point essentially incapacitated Ibragim Todashev, it would seem almost superhuman, but everything that we have learned in the investigation would show an individual who has a great deal of tolerance of pain and would more or less fight beyond it.

Florida State Attorney Jeffrey Ashton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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